With WinXP you have to change some policies so it can talk to the server, but this is all well documented. If you think about it WinXP et. al. still have to cooperate with WinNT-4.0 servers. Samba does a fair job of emulating that.
David Smith wrote:
PDCs are tough to setup. But, Samba has come a long long way and it works very very well. I can't take credit for the setup in the CS department, but we've got 100+ Win2k clients and a WinXP client authenticating with thousands of users to a Samba PDC on RedHat7.3 (using LDAP) and it works wonderfully. The only problem we've had is roaming profiles, but we don't think it's a Samba problem. Let's face it: multi-user in Windows is an afterthought and a hack. Having to download the whole profile on login and re-upload the whole thing on log-out is just plain dumb. But, these sorts of design problems exist regardless of the backend.
So, in a nutshell: Samba works awesome with both Win2k and XP. There are not that many good HOWTOs out there, but you'll need one.
--Dave
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Has anyone used Samba as a PDC for Windows2000 and WindowsXP professional? I've heard that it doesn'twork that great with Windows 2000, and only works with a big fat prayer with Windows XP. But that could have been older versions, and it's hard to keep up with Samba development. Anyone got any hints to getting it to work? Any experience like "Yeah it works great you just got to configure it correctly", or "Man I had the hardest time with that, I still curse it to this day!". I haven't really delved into it much, I just want to know if there is anything I need to watch out for.
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